00162 UNITED STATES. RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE. 10TH DIVISION: An Inventory of Its Mail Train Schedules at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Dennis Meissner Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

Finding aid encoded by Dennis Meissner November 17, 2005Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Minnesota Historical Society United States. Railway Mail Service. 10th Division. Schedule of mail trains. 1892-1903, 1912-1961. Periodic--monthly earlier on, then less frequently--pocket schedules issued by the 10th Division headquarters showing arrival times at all post offices of all trains serving the railway mail service in the division. The division included the upper peninsula of Michigan, and the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and (for earlier years) Montana. 3.5 cu. ft. (4 boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. RELATED MATERIALS

United States. Railway Mail Service. 10th Division. Weekly bulletin or orders, 1891-1907, are in the Minnesota Historical Society book collection.

OTHER FINDING AIDS

A print version of this finding aid is available in the repository; filed in ALPHA notebooks under the heading: United States. Railway Mail Service. 10th Division. Schedule of Mail Trains.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Railway mail service -- Middle West -- Periodicals. Railway mail service -- Middle West -- Timetables. Postal service -- Middle West -- Timetables. Document Types: Timetables. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. United States. Railway Mail Service. 10th Division. Schedule of Mail Trains. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession number: None

Processing Information:

Processed by: Dennis Meissner, November 2005

Catalog ID number: 003735779

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION 135.E.6.7B 1 Schedule of mail trains, August 18, 1892-December 1903, January 24, 1912-November 10, 1915. 19 folders. 135.E.6.8F 2 Schedule of mail trains, December 15, 1915-November 21, 1932. 16 folders. 135.E.6.9B 3 Schedule of mail trains, February 20, 1933-February 3, 1959. 16 folders. 135.E.6.10F 4 Schedule of mail trains, February 10, 1959-December 12, 1961. 4 folders.